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I'm interested to know who is using Kirkwood, and who would miss it if<br>
it went away. For now, we won't kill off ARMv5 because it is used in the<br>
official rPi builds but that doesn't mean I'm not interested to know<br>
whether we should put testing effort into Kirkwood for F18.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I'm using Kirkwood, with a couple of Dreamplugs. I've been working to get F17 and/or F18 to work on it (it turns out the Dreamplug doesn't have NAND and the orion_nand kernel module was hanging). </div>
<div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
My thought is that the latest plugs are moving to ARMv7, and so as the<br>
cutting edge Linux distro, we should make plans for deprecating support<br>
over the coming releases. This is not a call to drop support today. If I<br>
can get numbers on how many people care, that will help.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I would hate to have to move back to Debian on my plugs. I use Fedora on my desktop and RHEL and CentOS on my servers, so I really like the option of having the same on my Dreamplugs and Synology NAS (and other ARMv5's I may purchase in the future). Global Scale is still actively selling ARMv5 devices, and Synology (I have a 212) is still actively selling NAS's with Kirkwood, so it is far from a dead architecture.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I do understand your point about Fedora being cutting edge (though last I checked Fedora still runs on a Pentium 4 :-), and maybe BusyBox or Debian is a better choice anyway for "small computers", but I'd hate to not have a Fedora option, as I think there are a lot of Kirkwood's out there. And while Kirkwood is a subset of a small subset (ARM computers), I still consider it pretty cutting edge! ARM is still pretty new, and there are a lot of plugs out there that don't even know that Fedora is an option :-).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Anyway, my two cents. I have a couple of Dreamplugs and just starting to get active in the ARM and Fedora ARM communities. I'm still learning a lot, but am certainly willing to chip in where I can on testing (though probably will need some hand-holding at first).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Cheers,<br>Eric</div><div><br></div></div>